When Clary woke in the morning, still exhausted from lack of sleep, to an empty bed. As realisation hit she ripped the sheets of the bed and charged out of the door, panic setting in.

She raced down the hallway, not knowing where she was going, earning the concerned looks of the werewolves scattered down the hallways.

A hand reached out and grabbed her, pulling her back. She looked up to find the owner of the hand to be Simon.

She didn't bother asking him when he got here, she was to preoccupied with where the others were.

"Hey hey, calm down."

"Where are they? They're ok aren't they?" She asked hurriedly.

"The others are fine. I will take you to them."

She let out a sigh of relief and hugged Simon. When she pulled back he was smiling at her, a sad sort of smile.

"Come on. Let's find the others," they continued down the hallway. "We all came back this morning. Last night we couldn't find you guys but we just thought you guys were off somewhere. But at the end of the night after the wedding finished Mia found as all and told us all what had happened. We left first thing this morning. We never even noticed any faerie knights at the party. Clary..I..I'm sorry. I know this must be hard and we will all do what we can to protect Cece. Luke's already got half the pack put patrolling for faeries in the area and we've only been back an hour."

"Thanks Si. You're a good best friend you know. Everything will be ok, I won't let the Seelie Queen get any where near my daughter."

Simon placed a comforting arm around Clary and lead her back to Luke's office.

Inside was the rest of her family as well as Oggy, Mia and Jordan.

They all gave her sad looks as she walked in and as her mum hugged her and stroked her head.

"Mum I'm sorry. We had to take Beth. For her safety. I'm sorry if we worried you..." Clary rambled.

"Clary sssshhh. It's ok. Mia came and told me and you did the right thing."

Clary smiled back at her mum and turned to find Jace and Celine.

Jace places Celine in Clarys arms and kissed her on the forehead.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want to wake you earlier. You didn't get much sleep."

She stroked Celine's tiny face with her finger and relied, "that's ok. What is the time?"

"Midday, but you needed the rest."

Clary let out a gasp as she remembered the wedding. She turned to Magnus and Alec and said, "guys I'm so sorry we had to leave."

Magnus grasped Alec's hand as Alec replied, "its ok. You had good reason to and anyway you left near the end. It was still a great wedding."

"By the angel! What happened to Kaelie?" Clary asked realising that she had completely forgot about the faerie.

"She's in one of the old cells here," answered Jordan. "We're not exactly sure what to do with her."

"Well we can't let her go! She's nuts! And besides who's to say she won't go back to her royal pain in the ass?"

"Why would she go back? They tortured her?" Asked Alec.

"Alec did you not here me? She's gone loopy!"

Luke cleared his throat. "Well she can't stay here forever."

"Look, we need to figure this all out and we need to let the Clave know" said Robert who had been quite up until now.

"Luke is there a phone we could use. The Clave need to know that the Seelie Queen is finally making a strike." Asked Maryse.

"Yeah. Jordan show Maryse to the phone please."

They left the room and it went silent.

The sound of Celine gurgling was what broke the silence.

Clary looked down at her daughter and said, "we need to decide what we're going to do...so that Ceces safe."

"I think you, Jace and Cece need to lie low for the time being which means no going anywhere without anyone knowing and no going outside but I think you should come back to the Institute. It's safe their." Said Jocelyn.

"I agree," said Jace. "But I think it's important that we don't let the Seelie Queen know that we know her plan."

"But how?" Mia asked. "The Seelie Queen will know Kaelie is gone by now and she will probably have guessed that we killed one of her soldiers when she realises one is missing."

They took a moment to think about it before Isabelle came up with an idea.

"What if we tell the Seelie Queen that somebody else killed them."

"Really Iz? So we just point the finger at someone else and hopes she believes us. And anyway we don't know where she is to get a message to her." Said Alec.

"No. Wait. That might be a good idea," said Simon. Everyone turned to him waiting for an explanation. "Luke you're head off the pack. What if you were to contact the Seelie Queen somehow and tell her that the pack managed to find Kaelie and brought her back to you. And that one of the pack found the other faerie knight at the wedding and killed him assuming he had gone rogue and was trying to sabotage the wedding. That way she won't think that we know her plans or that we suspect her of trying to take Cece. She will think that we think she is still in hiding and that Kaelie and the other faerie were just rogues."

"So you want to point the blame on my pack?" Asked Luke.

Simon rubbed his neck. "Well...yeah I guess so."

"It's a good idea," Luke admitted. "But if something like this were to happen she knows I would tell you and then the Clave would know. We can't have her thinking that all the Claves eyes are on her. But maybe we can convince Raphael to tell the Seelie Queen it was him and his vamps that found Kaelie and killed that soldier rather than me. She won't suspect him of telling the Clave, she'll think that Raphael and his clan have misunderstood and don't suspect what she is doing, and she will think all of us are oblivious."

"It's our best bet," confirmed Jace. "But what are we actually hoping to do. This gives us the upper hand because she believes we don't know anything but then what? We can't hide Cece forever and the fact is she isn't safe."

Silence filled the room.

"Exactly," Jace said as he wiped his hands down his face. Nobody seemed to be able to look him in the eye, Clary noticed.

Just then Maryse and Jordan reappeared.

"I just spoke to Bat," reported Jordan. "Apparently Kaelie's gone quiet. She's not talking, hasn't moved from her bed in hours and refuses to eat or drink. She's just not responding."

Maryse stepped forward. "And I just spoke to the Clave. They feel inputs in Cece's best interest if they don't alert other shadow hunters yet. They think it's best if the Seelie Queen doesn't suspect us of knowing her plans."

There was a shirt silence if reflection before Luke said, "well I think that concludes this meeting. Kaelie can stay here for the time being but at some point we will have to move her but I think we should cross that bridge when we come to it. I will get in contact with Raphael later." He turned specifically to Clary and Jace. "I'm not sure what comes after that but we will think of something. But for now I think everyone needs to go home while we sort out what's to happen." Clary nodded in response.

Simon let out a sigh. "Why can't anything every be simple. It's always one thing after another. Doesn't this job entitle me to holidays."

Isabelle took his Gand a said, "that's what comes with being a full time member of team good."